Ajaya Neupane is the most recent PhD. graduate of the SPIES lab. Groundbreaking research http://spies.cs.uab.edu/neuro-security (top-tier papers, NDSS14 best paper, NIJ/DoJ fellow). He is taking on a post-doctoral research scientist position at UC Riverside, working on UCR/CMU/PSU CyberSecurity Research Alliance project funded by ARL.

The SPIES lab and collaborators have two papers accepted to ACM CCS 2017. Extremely fierce competition with only 151 papers making it to the program out of 836 submissions (an acceptance of just about 18%).

Summer Vo, a high school student from the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA), who worked with Dr. Saxena and Maliheh Shirvanian on security research this past entire year, won the third place at the 2017 Central Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CARSEF) in the Computer Science and Mathematics category. At the same competition, she was awarded the INTEL Excellence in Computer Science Outstanding Achievement.

Summer is joining the MIT EECS program this Fall, majoring in Computer Science.

The eligible candidates can apply directly to the MS CFSM program, but should note that they are interested in the UAB SFS program in their statement of career goals and objectives. The deadline to apply for Fall 2017 is June 1, 2017. However, the sooner you apply the better.